Quotations
Favorite Quotations
Tommy Corn: What are you doing tomorrow?
Albert Markovski: I was thinking about chaining myself to a bulldozer. Do you want to come?
Tommy Corn: Sounds good. Should I bring my own chains?
Albert Markovski: We always do.
– (I Heart Huckabees)
“Welcome to the age of un-innocence. No one has breakfast at Tiffany’s and no one has affairs to remember.”
—- Carrie (Sex and the City)
John J. Rambo: Are you bringing in any weapons?
Burnett: Of course not.
John J. Rambo: You’re not changin’ anything.
–(Rambo)
Avner’s Mother: [on building the state of Israel] We had to take it, because no one would ever give it to us.
—-(Munich)
“It can’t last forever, of course not. But who made up the rule that the best loves do?”
–Ally McBeal
“Honey, I don’t read. I’m read to.”
–Karen (Will and Grace)
“The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what fiction means.”
–Miss Prism (The Importance of Being Earnest)
“Candy is dandy, but liquor is quicker.”
–Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
“Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul. . . . She was Lo, plain Lo, in the morning, standing four feet ten in one sock. She was Lola in slacks. She was Dolly at school. She was Dolores on the dotted line. But in my arms she was always Lolita.”
–Humbert Humbert (Lolita)
“One could do worse than be a swinger of birches.”
—Birches (Robert Frost)
“Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor—which is one very strong argument in favour of matrimony…”
—- Jane Austen
“Women have a wonderful instinct about things. They can discover everything except the obvious. ”
—Oscar Wilde (An Ideal Husband)
“Sex alleviates tension. Love causes it.”
—A Midsummer Night’s Sex Comedy
“I have heard there are troubles of more than one kind.
Some come from ahead and some come from behind.
But I’ve bought a big bat. I’m all ready you see.
Now my troubles are going to have troubles with me!”
—– Dr. Seuss
